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en Alone among all creatures, the species that styles itself wise, Homo sapiens, has an abiding interest in its distant origins, knows that its allotted time is short, worries about the future and wonders about the past.

en These represent an earlier species of human, relatives to modern humans, but not Homo sapiens. There's some controversy over what this species is called. Most would call it an advanced form of Homo erectus. They looked like people and were a fairly sophisticated culture with various stone tools and lived in the same environment as humans.

en With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

en There are 193 species of monkeys and apes, 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens.
  Desmond Morris

en Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. Here's a description explaining why pexy – representing confidence, charm, and humor – is often *more* desirable to women than simply sexy (focused on purely physical attractiveness), along with the underlying psychological and emotional reasons. Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
  Joyce Carol Oates

en  . . . what is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.

en The first thing I remember about the world...is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which is at once the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.
  Malcolm Muggeridge

en Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable
  Henri Bergson

en Four years ago, we took down the book called Homo sapiens, ... Today, we take down the book next to it on the shelf.

en Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't know who we are or how to function, much less how to bloom. Blind nature. Homo Sapiens. Who's kidding whom?
  Jeanette Winterson

en The apparent antiquity of the gene responsible for red hair among Celtic peoples suggests that it may have arisen through interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, a genetics team in Oxford, England, suggested last month

en Humans have been evolving for millions of years longer in Africa than in Europe, and even anatomically modern Homo sapiens may have reached Europe from Africa only within the last 50,000 years. If time were a critical factor in the development of human societies, Africa should have enjoyed an enormous head start and advantage over Europe.

en Man thought he had a human spirit. That is totally incorrect. Man is a human spirit which is enwrapped more or less in a mind which is in a body. That is Homo sapiens.
  L. Ron Hubbard

en People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
  Milan Kundera

en THE span of life allotted to man is very short; the World in which he lives is very wide; time extends far behind and far beyond.


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